Comments on: Debunked: 3 Reasons the AR-15 Isn’t Reliablehttp://www.gundigest.com/tactical-gear/tactical-guns/debunked-3-reasons-the-ar-15-isnt-reliable
Expert advice from the world's leading authorities on gun values, gun prices, gun history, gunsmithing, shooting and tactical gearFri, 31 Jul 2015 03:04:55 -0500hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3By: Scarhearthttp://www.gundigest.com/tactical-gear/tactical-guns/debunked-3-reasons-the-ar-15-isnt-reliable/comment-page-1#comment-37814
Sun, 08 Jun 2014 00:41:13 +0000http://www.gundigest.com/?p=121781#comment-37814I have never served so I can’t comment about dessert climates in combat. However I tend to grab any course that is offered here in Canada. Several of these have been week long out in semi arid dessert countryside were it gets very dusty and windy. In the winter very cold with blowing heavy wet snow. And the courses have happened in both of those conditions. Most people were running AR’s with a a few ACR’s and a CZ 858 or two. The only AR’s that went down were from manufacturer’s of shall we say “problematic history”.
The bulk of the AR’s were KAC and all the rifles through the seasons got driving snow and dust in them and they all held up fine except the ones from known issue manufacturers. So I personally don’t believe in the myth of the unreliability of the AR.
On a side note. Since we hear about the whole reliability issue a lot, many AR owners as a matter of practice don’t strip down their AR’s and clean them just to see how far they can push them. The most that they do is if it looks like they are getting a little “dry”, they squirt a little oil into the bolt holes and that’s about it. They get disgustingly dirty but they keep running. These week long courses generally go through 1K-2K rounds depending on the instructor.
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Wed, 24 Apr 2013 02:23:14 +0000http://www.gundigest.com/?p=121781#comment-28449I have personally used some very high grade AR15 guns in competition. I would never use this type of gas system for a serious survival rifle. Other military guns that use this system like the Rashid, Swedish Ljungman etc. all have the same problem, they jam up when not squeaky clean and drowning in lubricants period.

The AR15 was a failure in Vietnam and 40 some years later failed in Iraq as well. Remember the cute little blond who was the only soldier among her group that had an AR that kept on working? I might add even a fine mist of water like a light rain will mix with the burnt power and jam up these guns right quick. Its amazing the U.S. is still using such a worthless weapon in combat.